Writing Sámi Memory and Trauma into Swedish History: Linnea Axelsson’s Ædnan. Epos (2018) and Elin Anna Labba’s Herrarna Satte Oss Hit. Om Tvångsförflyttningar i Sverige (2020)

• Published in: Scandinavistica Vilnensis
• Main Author: Broomans, Petra
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University Press 2023
• Subjects: Sámi literature; Swedish history; Forced Migration; Memory; Trauma; Indigenous methodology; Paratexts; Cultural Transfer; Linnea Axelsson; Elin Anna Labba; Norway; Porsanger; Karesuando; Labba; reindeer husbandry; Sámi
• Online Access: https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/32804; https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.24

After Sweden and Norway signed the reindeer grazing convention agreement in 1919, reindeer-herding Sámi families selected by the Swedish authorities were forced to migrate from the Karesuando area in Norway to more southern regions within the reindeer husbandry area in Sweden. These relocations at t...